Alec has hit back at NYC police on Twitter following the arrest (Picture: InTouch/CNN/YouTube)

An onlooker told In Touch magazine that Baldwin ‘went ballistic on the cops, screaming at them’.

A spokesperson for the NYPD told FOX411: ‘Basically around 10:15, he was riding his bicycle the wrong way in vicinity of 16th and Fifth [Avenue] he was approached by the officers and was asked for [identification],’ the spokesperson said. ‘He then became belligerent and started arguing and he was taken into custody.

‘He was issued two summonses one for traffic violation and one for disorderly conduct,’ the spokesperson explained. ‘He did not present ID to the police officer.’

Baldwin was involved in another street scuffle last year when he turned on a paparazzo who was photographing he and his wife having lunch in NYC. The actor pushed Paul Adao against a car but nobody was arrested.

Baldwin lashed out at paparazzo Paul Adao in August last year (Picture: Xpourephotos.com)